Army
Valor Friday
The humble looking enlisted man you see before you with a CIB has a distinctive little ribbon just below that among his fruit salad. Even without the photo being in color, the brilliant light blue ribbon with its five white stars stands out among the other awards on display. Bill Crawford was a young private […]
FAA closes Washington route, DOGE cuts
The FAA has announced it will permanently shut down helicopter flights in the DC area on the same route that brought down an American Airlines plane on January 29, killing all aboard both aircraft. Before the collision, there were 28 government agencies authorized to fly helicopters near Reagan National, including the Department of Defense, military […]
Tuesday tidbits
Let’s open with Jack Texeira, the enlisted Air Force kid who posted thousands of pages of classified material for his game=playing buddies to read. He got 15 years for that little trick last fall – but he’s back. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information […]
Weekend updates – Texas
Once did a driving trip, hitting up the Buffalo Soldier’s monuments at Ft. Riley and Ft. Leavenworth, stopping at the Negro Leagues Museum and American Jazz museum and hitting the Harry Truman Library in Independence, MO. This may take a little longer…it’s Texas, y’all. Things are further apart. Here’s a few ideas: It’s official – […]
Valor Friday
As we reported the other day, Fort Benning is once more Fort Benning. The large Army facility is no longer named after Confederate Brigadier General Henry Benning, who was a staunch anti-abolitionist and vocal and active participant in the secession cause. It is now named for Sergeant Fred Benning of Nebraska. Fred Benning was born […]
Confused? You Should Be.
Doubling down on re-naming US. Army posts BACK to the names we are familiar with, SecDef Hegseth has re-named Ft. Moore to Ft. Benning. “The Army awarded CPL Benning the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in action south of Exermont, France, on October 9, 1918,” read a memo signed by Hegseth directing the […]
Valor Friday
BBC (by way of AOL), has a story about a museum appealing for donations to purchase medals related to a grizzly WWII battle I’m ashamed to say I was unfamiliar with. It is the Battle of Geilenkirchen, which was a British-led endeavor, but was the first combat action of the war for the American 84th […]
Valor Friday
I came across this Military.com article about the oldest ever Buffalo Soldier and thought I’d share it. From Military.com; Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, heavily armored tanks. His life connected three centuries, along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars […]
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